Meera had been married for last three and half years and happy with her husband. He is supportive, loving, caring and most importantly not chauvinistic. Her life was like that of a girl who belongs to average middle-class Indian family. For her mother a girl should know cooking, should take care of the family and get married before the biological clock starts ticking. When her father passed away her mother kind of forced her to get married because she was already 24 years old and her mother has to fulfill her responsibility of getting Meera married at a perfect age, before society starts saying anything. As an obedient daughter from an Indian family Meera obeyed and got married to Manav.
Manav is an IT professional and Meera is still a student pursuing her PhD. Before marriage she was working in a national laboratory as a junior research fellow, but on Manav's request she resigned that position, as for Manav long-distance relationship would not work if they had to get married. Also there was not much IT related jobs available in the state where Meera was working. So, finally after working for one year in the reputed laboratory she left it, got married and went to Pune where Manav was staying with his mother. Till then she did not know any complications related to married life.
Meera had a very good relation with her mother-in-law before marriage, but very soon after marriage she realized that this relation can never become a mother-daughter relationship, as for Mana'v mother Meera had snatched her son from her. Manav is practical and supportive modern days husband, who believes in equality and therefore he helps Meera in every aspect of her life. Right from grocery shopping till helping in preparation of a power point presentation for her PhD interview. Manav's mother who belongs to an era in which husbands beatings and scoldings were considered to be as the way of showing love could not digest her son's soft and caring behaviour towards Meera and hence their relation became a bit strained. A happy go lucky Meera only six-months after her marriage realized that to keep herself happy she had to go out start pursuing her dreams. Then she joined for her PhD. She had her husband's back. In between her conflicts with her mother-in-law, she used to blame her mother for getting her married, but slowly she realized that Manav had come to his life as a blessing. Who loves her without being judgmental, motivates her to do better in her life, love her family as his own. What else one could ask for? Manav motivates her in overcoming all her problems and worries. Meera started her PhD journey after her marriage with immense support from Manav. Slowly she understood that under whatever circumstances might be, but they were meant to be together, to have a beautiful life together. The conflicts with her mother-in-law started becoming immaterial as the bond she shares with her husband became rock solid with time. They are together for three-and-half years now but they feel like forever.
Meera's mother was happy when she got married as she had successfully finished her duty of getting Meera married to a well-settled guy. She never tried to understand the concept of being independent without getting married or even after getting married. For her, a husband is always a knight in shining armor to protect his wife. So to feel protected and happy a girl needs to get married. If Meera goes to a distant place for PhD related work her mother wants Manav to accompany him, which is not possible for him due to his hectic MNC life. But doing things alone, moving to different places alone gave her sense of independence even being in a relation. This gave her the happiness she was not able to feel even before her marriage. Meera did not go to picnic during her school and college days as her mother never allowed her. She never took any tuition, neither she was allowed to sleep over in her girl friend's house. So she kind of missed the independence of being on her own. Her mother used to accompany her to her friends' birthday parties. So, Meera hardly had the sense of independence and after marriage she struggled because of that. But after three and half years of marriage Meera is happy doing stuffs independently, taking decisions on her own and falling in love with Manav over and over again, for motivating her and giving immense strength to overcome her fears and hesitations. Once why did I get married question got converted to thank God I got married for Meera. She loves her life now more than she used love before her marriage.